Otaku closed down

[cameron354]

Welp, that sucks, he's an irl friend and a bro. Doesn't deserve this crap. Big ol' company ******** on the little guy. Maybe an open source clean-room emulator would work.

Maybe I'll have to have a look into that.

Of course he deserved it, he broke copyright laws and repeatedly ignored warnings.

[Kardan]

Welp, that sucks, he's an irl friend and a bro. Doesn't deserve this crap. Big ol' company ******** on the little guy. Maybe an open source clean-room emulator would work.

Maybe I'll have to have a look into that.

A company taking action on some person for stealing their content and selling it as his own so he makes money? Yeah, don't see anything wrong there

[Yawn]

so wat retros have been closed so far then

[Pigperson]

It's a bit late to be taking action now, retros have been around for years.

Will

[Kardan]

It's a bit late to be taking action now, retros have been around for years.

Will

It's not about closing retros, it's about punishing the person that's been making money off of them...

[GommeInc]

Hopefully Sulake are learning lessons from retros - if Habbo was a successful brand then these sorts of things wouldn't exist in such large numbers and be so popular. They ought to take this as a warning that maybe they should look inwards at why people are more interested in using retros and adapt their services accordingly. There's no doubt that this all links together with their poor service and dodgy version builds in recent years.

[October]

It's interesting seeing this happening now rather than before. Is it because more people are using retros now? If so then Sulake should take a look at what they're doing wrong on their own servers.

Which hotel was it that had a retro with more active users than the real hotel did?

[MKR&*42]

It's interesting seeing this happening now rather than before. Is it because more people are using retros now? If so then Sulake should take a look at what they're doing wrong on their own servers.

Which hotel was it that had a retro with more active users than the real hotel did?

I think that's a .dk hotel (because they can't gamble on .dk anymore) but I didn't know the name of the hotel. I have seen 1/2 english hotels get 1200+ before which beats .se and .no usercounts sometimes.

[LiquidLuck.]

About time, but maybe they are taking it a bit too far? Depends on how much they earn from retros...

[xxMATTGxx]

About time, but maybe they are taking it a bit too far? Depends on how much they earn from retros...

I guess it depends on what you class as too far. If someone ignored a number of notices to take down whatever you were doing. Then you have to take a step forward and take more drastic actions which is what has happened.